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Magna Hungaria (Latin: Magna Hungaria, Hungaria maior), literally "Great Hungary" or "Ancient Hungary", refers to the ancestral home of the Hungarians, whose identification is still subject to historiographical debate.
Magna Hungaria was mentioned by the thirteenth-century Franciscan Giovanni da Plano Carpini in his reports of his travels in Northern Asia and Central Asia. Friar Julian, a thirteenth century Hungarian monk and explorer, also visited Magna Hungaria in the interest of finding the Eastern Hungarians, the group of Hungarians that travelled east rather than west with the rest of the people towards the Carpathian Basin during the ninth century.
According to mainstream historiography, Magna Hungaria was located in the forest-steppe regions of Bashkortostan, now part of Russia or more precisely in the area of the Kushnarenkovo and Karayakupovo cultures, in the region of the Southern Urals.
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